Published 2012 | Version v1
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PWR internal flow modeling with fuel assemblies details

  • 1. Oak Ridge National Lab., Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
  • 2. Westinghouse Electric Company, Columbia, SC (United States)
  • 3. CD-adapco, Melville, NY (United States)

Description

This study is an example of a massive parallel computing of the coolant flow in a nuclear reactor. It resolves the flow velocities in each assembly on pin level and predicts the flow distribution in complex geometries such as the lower and upper reactor plenums. The size of the developed model (1.035 billion cells) required the runs to be executed on the NCCS clusters (www.nccs.gov). STAR-CCM+ code (www.ed-adapco.com) was installed on two clusters: JAGUARXT5 and FROST, both of which were capable of executing this model. (authors)

Additional details

Publishing Information

Publisher
American Nuclear Society - ANS
Imprint Place
La Grange Park (United States)
ISBN
978-0-89448-091-1
Imprint Title
Proceedings of the 2012 International Congress on Advances in Nuclear Power Plants - ICAPP '12
Imprint Pagination
2799 p.
Journal Page Range
p. 1906-1910

Conference

Title
2012 International Congress on Advances in Nuclear Power Plants
Acronym
ICAPP '12
Dates
24-28 Jun 2012
Place
Chicago, IL (United States)

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
France
INIS RN
44065617
Subject category
S21: SPECIFIC NUCLEAR REACTORS AND ASSOCIATED PLANTS;
Resource subtype / Literary indicator
Conference
Quality check status
Yes
Descriptors DEI
COMPUTER CODES; COOLANTS; FLOW MODELS; FUEL ASSEMBLIES; GEOMETRY; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; PWR TYPE REACTORS; SIMULATION; VELOCITY;
Descriptors DEC
ENRICHED URANIUM REACTORS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICS; NUCLEAR FACILITIES; POWER PLANTS; POWER REACTORS; REACTORS; THERMAL POWER PLANTS; THERMAL REACTORS; WATER COOLED REACTORS; WATER MODERATED REACTORS;

Optional Information

Lead record
3ge50-fxq17
Notes
4 refs.